> There's a place for this, and I think it's fine as long as we're not replacing the originals. When the film is copyrighted (as The French Connection is for t

> There's a place for this, and I think it's fine as long as we're not replacing the originals. When the film is copyrighted (as The French Connection is for the next 45 years), it is effectively replacing the originals. So far this change only seems to have been made to streamed copies. Physical copies are unaffected so far, but the next physical release may well be censored too, meaning the original out‐of‐print edition will only be legally available through deteriorating secondhand copies. Refer to theatrical Star Wars for another example of that kind of erasure (by the original creator, no less).